[ecrea] CFP - LITME@WORK2019 - Distant collaboration in a digitalized world of work: media and digital competences, organizational design and discourses

*Conference announcement: Distant collaboration in a digitalized world 
of work: *
*media and digital competences, organizational design and discourses*

Context

The LITME@WORK research project (www.litmeatwork.be 
<http://www.litmeatwork.be>) is pleased to invite researchers to submit 
abstracts for presentation at its closing conference: "Distant 
collaboration in a digitalized world of work: media and digital 
competences, organizational design and discourses". The conference will 
be held at the University of Namur (Belgium) on the 8th, 9th and 10th of 
May 2019.

The aim of this conference is to gather the scientific community from 
all disciplines working on digital, media and information literacy 
(DMIL), organizational design, and discourse in relation to office work 
(ranging from clerical work to managerial tasks). We especially welcome 
papers focusing on aspects and implications of teamwork and distance 
work facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Office work environments, practices and discourses are changing due to 
new organizational models including teleworking policies, shared office 
spaces or “deskless” environments, digitalization of information systems 
or “paperless” policies, teamwork improvement through groupwares. New 
kinds of information and communication technologies like mobile devices, 
multimedia content, and cloud computing also play a role in the 
transformation of everyday work practices. These transformations, as 
visible in so-called “New Worlds of Work” or “New Ways of Working” 
(NWOW) initiatives in public and private organizations, create new 
requirements with regard to  DML competences, organizational design and 
corporate discourses, for instance in terms of engaging in collaborative 
writing, managing personal and shared information, managing time, and 
managing a team at a distance. At the same time, these practices have an 
impact on the relationships office workers have with themselves, with 
others and with the institutional contexts through which they move and 
to which they contribute.

The LITME@WORK project approached these issues through three 
perspectives: (1) the organizational discourses on the digitally 
competent office worker, (2) the relationship between work organization 
and conditions for (DMIL) competences utilization and learning; and (3) 
the relationship between digital media uses and competencies in 
employees’ new work practices. These three approaches also provide the 
interdisciplinary approach of this conference that seeks to address the 
following questions: How are digital media competences addressed and 
practiced in today’s office work? How can digital media competences be 
further integrated in emerging team/distance work structures and 
practices in order to support efficient, stimulating and meaningful ways 
of working? How do managers and other office workers make sense of 
themselves and their practices in an increasingly digitalized work 
environment? How are the subjectivities and activities of office workers 
structured in and through culture, communication and/or discourse?

Topics

Possible topics of interest for this conference include, but are not 
limited to:

  *
    Conditions of development of collaborative competences
  *
    Collective competences in professional contexts
  *
    Distant communication at work
  *
    Virtual teamwork and virtual teams
  *
    Impacts of organizational design on work practices and/or learning
    opportunities
  *
    Effects of collaborative technologies in virtual teams
  *
    Constructions of NWOW related office cultures, subjectivities and
    practices
  *
    Positive and negative outcomes of the transition to digitalized work
    environments
  *
    Power and resistance in relation to the implementation of new ways
    of working
  *
    Digital, media and information literacy at work
  *
    Work coordination in virtual teams
  *
    Group information management and knowledge management
  *
    ...


We welcome contributors from disciplines as diverse as organizational 
studies, (critical) management studies, communication science, sociology 
of work, organizational communication, discourse analysis, information 
science, computer-supported collaborative work, digital and information 
literacy…

Confirmed keynote speaker
Laurent Taskin, Louvain School of Management, Université Catholique de 
Louvain (UCLouvain).

Practical information

The conference will be held from the 8th of May (starting in the 
afternoon)to the 10th of May 2019 (ending around noon)at the University 
of Namur, Belgium (https://www.unamur.be/en/access).

Participation fee

The participation fee is 100€. This fee covers coffee breaks, lunches on 
the 9th and 10th, and a ticket for the evening dinner on the 9th, as 
well as a printed version of the book of abstracts and the LITME@WORK 
project final book.

Submissions

Participants are invited to submit an abstract of 500 words maximum 
(references not included), with 3 to 5 keywords. References and a short 
biography of the authors
should be uploaded in a separated Word document.

Abstracts must be submitted in English.

Abstracts have to be submitted through the Easychair platform of the 
conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=litmeatwork2019

Important dates

Abstract submission deadline: January 31st, 2019

Notification to participants: February 28th, 2019

Accepted abstracts will be published online and in the printed book of 
abstracts which will be distributed to registered participants.

Registration deadline: April 1st, 2019

Contact

Any inquiry should be addressed to (jerry.jacques /at/ unamur.be) 
<mailto:(jerry.jacques /at/ unamur.be)>. This CFP can also be found on the 
LITMEatWORK website: http://www.litmeatwork.be/final-conferenceand on 
Easychair: https://easychair.org/cfp/LITMEATWORK2019

Organizing and scientific committee

Anne-Sophie Collard (University of Namur)
Jerry Jacques (University of Namur)
Pierre Fastrez (UCLouvain)
Thibault Philippette (UCLouvain)
Valèria Ligurgo (UClouvain)
Monique Ramioul (KU Leuven)
Arne Vanderstukken (KU Leuven)
Yennef Vereyken (KU Leuven)
Geoffroy Patriarche (Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles)
Marie Dufrasne (Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles)
Jan Zienkowski (Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles)

This research project and this conference are funded financed by the 
BRAIN-be program of the Belgian Federal Public Planning Service Science 
Policy (BESLPO).







Jerry JACQUES
Postdoctoral Researcher / International Relations Officer
Research Centre Information, Law and Society (CRIDS)

(jerry.jacques /at/ unamur.be) <mailto:(jerry.jacques /at/ unamur.be)>
CRIDS Website <http://www.crids.eu>
My ResearchGate Profile <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerry_Jacques>
My Twitter Account <https://twitter.com/jerry_jacques>

Université de Namur ASBL
Rue de Bruxelles 61 - 5000 Namur
Belgique

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